The Watchdog with David Bozell

The soulless, easily swayed, emotionally stunted Left’s penchant for political violence has struck again. And for the third time, it has been directed at President Trump. Thank heaven above, the radicals are 0–3.

This time, it happened in front of a press corps that openly detests him at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. And as the facts emerged, the media’s reaction followed the same pattern: confusion, denial, a refusal to acknowledge the obvious, and making off with the abandoned table wine. Reporting shows the would‑be assassin’s manifesto was explicitly anti‑Trump and anti‑Christian — two positions that mirror the posture of the partisan journalists inside that ballroom.

For years, this same press branded Trump “Hitler,” “authoritarian,” and a “threat to democracy.” Spend that long painting a man as a monster, and unstable people will imagine themselves the hero who must “stop” him. But expecting the media to look inward is a fool’s errand; they never do.

MS NOW claimed to be baffled by the motive, even with the manifesto in hand. CNN’s first instinct was to blame Trump himself. One guest called him an “insurrectionist” who was “poisoning the rhetoric.” And yet, in the same breath, CNN avoided the shooter’s stated motive entirely, pivoting by Sunday to a vague “assassination culture” instead of ideology.

Then came CBS. Less than 24 hours after the attack, 60 Minutes host Norah O’Donnell opened her interview with President Trump by reading the attacker’s manifesto language on air, including accusations that called him a “rapist,” a “pedophile,” and a “traitor,” and pressed the president for a reaction. Trump recoiled and called her a disgrace. The country was still absorbing an assassination attempt, and CBS was already using the attacker’s words to hit the president on national television.

A reckless press, steeped in hostility, keeps acting as if it plays no role in the climate surrounding these attacks. And still, Trump stands protected, as many Americans believe, by something greater than the chaos around him.

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David Bozell
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